Hemophagocytic syndrome in an adolescent with crohn disease receiving azathioprine and infliximab

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 193-195

  Francolla, Karen A ^a   Altman, Arnold ^b   Sylvester, Francisco A ^b,c  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Farmington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 METHYLTHIOINOSINE; ACICLOVIR; AZATHIOPRINE; DEXAMETHASONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFLIXIMAB; MESALAZINE; PREDNISONE; TIOGUANINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANUS DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOODY DIARRHEA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COUGHING; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DUODENITIS; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ERYTHROPENIA; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; ESOPHAGUS ULCER; FATIGUE; FECES CULTURE; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GASTRITIS; GRANULOMA; HEADACHE; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; INTESTINE VILLUS ATROPHY; LEUKOPENIA; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHINORRHEA; SECONDARY AMENORRHEA; SORE THROAT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS INFECTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; FEMALE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AZATHIOPRINE; CROHN DISEASE; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 56049110631     PISSN: 02772116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPG.0b013e31816a30b9     Document Type: Article

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